Daily Scripture Analysis

  • Thirty-third Sunday – Year C – Ordinary Time

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thirty-third Sunday – Year C – Ordinary Time   Readings: Mal 3:19-20a (4:1-2a); 2 Thes 3:7-12; Lk 21:5-19.   1/ Reading I: RSV Malachi 4:1 “For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.”  2/ Reading II: RSV … Read more

  • Saturday – Thirty-second week – OT1

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Thirty-second week – OT1 (St Albert the Great, OP, bishop and doctor of the Church)   Readings: Wis 18:14-16, 19:6-9; Lk 18:1-8. 1/ Reading I: RSV Wisdom 18:14 For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone, 15 thy all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior 16 carrying the sharp sword of thy authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven … Read more

  • Friday – Thirty-second week – OT1

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Friday – Thirty-second week – OT1   Readings: Wis 13:1-9; Lk 17:26-37. 1/ Reading I: RSV Wisdom 13:1 For all men who were ignorant of God were foolish by nature; and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know him who exists, nor did they recognize the craftsman while paying heed to his works; 2 but they supposed that either fire or wind or swift air, or the circle of the stars, or turbulent water, or the luminaries of heaven were the gods that rule the … Read more

  • Thursday – Thirty-second week – OT1

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Thirty-second week – OT1 – (St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin)   Readings: Wis 7:22b-8:1; Lk 17:20-25.   1/ Reading I: RSV Wisdom 7:22 For in her there is a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen, irresistible, 23 beneficent, humane, steadfast, sure, free from anxiety, all-powerful, overseeing all, and penetrating through all spirits that are intelligent and pure and most subtle. 24 For wisdom is more mobile than any motion; because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates … Read more

  • Wednesday – Thirty-second week – OT1

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Thirty-second week – OT1 (St Josaphat, bishop and martyr) Readings: Wis 6:1-11; Lk 17:11-19. 1/ Reading I: RSV Wisdom 6:1 Listen therefore, O kings, and understand; learn, O judges of the ends of the earth. 2 Give ear, you that rule over multitudes, and boast of many nations. 3 For your dominion was given you from the Lord, and your sovereignty from the Most High, who will search out your works and inquire into your plans. 4 Because as servants of his kingdom you did not rule rightly, … Read more

  • Tuesday – Thirty-second Week – OT1

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Thirty-second Week – OT1 (St Martin of Tour, bishop) Readings: Wis 2:23-3:9; Lk 17:7-10. Reading 1 (Wis 2:23-3:9): God formed man to be imperishable; the image of his own nature he made them. But by the envy of the Devil, death entered the world, and they who are in his possession experience it. But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them. They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead; and their passing away was thought … Read more

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